The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-09
PE2SONS'AND THINGS.

The name Itaska given to the
source of the Mississippi, was coined
for the occasion by School craft, from
the Latin veritas caput, the true
source.
The owner Of the alleged Salvador
Rosa landscape, who brought suit in
a New York court for $4,000 dam.
ages against storage company,
was awarded $500.
Oscar Wilde's latest attempt at
literature is short novel of the blood
and thunder species entitled "Lord
Arthur Seville's Crime; tale of
Cheiromancy."
Harvard's gymnasium cost s11O,-
900, Yale's s125,O0O, AID Colunbia's
s156,OO0.
There are five young women en-
rolled in the law department of the
Michigan University.
Gen. Stevenson, Of Illinois, was
the founder Of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
Senator-E,ect Pasco, OF Florida, is
the only Confederate private who has,
eyer been chosen~to tie United
States Senate.
Ex-senator John J. Patterson, for.
merly Of South Carolina, now of Mif.
fntown, Pa, is said to have made a
handsome fortune in a recent busi.
ness transaction.
R. E. Wells, an aeronaut, says he
is negotiating with "Lucky" Bald
win to secure his aid in building a
great air-ship, in Which he declares
be can circumnavigate the globe in
thirty days. Baldwin, he says, is
the project with some favor.
The 800 young women of Welles-
ly college do the housework of the
college on the cooperative plan. It
takes each one of them forty.f five min
utes day to do her share.
A Winnepeg photographer recent
ly exhibited a case full of photo.
graphs of his debtors, each being Ia
belled with the name, address, and
Indebtedness Of the person represent
cd.
T TIE late James Lick left 100000
for the decoration of the San Fran
cisco city hall. Competitive designs
for groupe of bronze statuary to be
placed therein have been called for.
Miss Anthony, known as the only
''lady lawyer of Dublin having
brought suit for 100000 against Sir
John Arnott, proprietor of the Irish
Times, dismissed her suit, without
prejudices,' because one of the jurors
laughed at her.
Editoc Moses Handy, of Philadel
phia, says that the question of states
rights was finally destroyed in 1865
Does Editor Handy mean that the
people of the Northern States fought
to destroy their OWN rights under the
constitution? And if he doesn't
mean this, what in the name of com
mon sense does he mean?
A distinguished doc:o has discov
cred that ice wafer is a stlmulant
Now, then, anybody can 60 off anG
kill himself with impunity, according
to strict hygienic principles.
Seven thousand goatskins have
gone into the binding of Genera
Grants book. This is an interesting
item. A great many books nov
issued ought to be bound in calf.
1t is reported that the bills for tn,
reception of Queen Kapiolani in Bos
ton show that two hundred gallon
Of liquor were consumed by th,
one hundred guests That is onl,
two gallons apiece, which proves tia
Boston is rapidly becoming a prohi
bition city. It must not, however
be called The Hub" any longer, bu
rather The Tub
1ne crop OF ladles over hundred
years of age who were intimately &C
quainted with the Washington famil,
is unusually'large this year. One o
them has tie little Ratchet with whic
George cut down tie cherry tree, an
another has the lie that he could no
tell.
When that grand old man Jefferso
Davis departs this life what in tn
world will the Northern editors hsv
) to write about?-Neac Orleans State.
You seem to have forgotten tn
young man who teased the life gut c
some passengers by continually cry
ing out, "OA, how thirsty I ami
When they filed him full at the nea
esS pump, he simply altered the r
frain to "Ob, how thirsty I wasr'
Trvino to Roach a Eerdjot